← sneha hassan

Scribbles

Links I'm into: papers, tools, videos, and rabbit holes, with a one-line note on why. Updated whenever something sticks.

READINGJul 2026

The Bitter Lesson by Rich Sutton

Re-read this every few months. Compute plus general methods beat clever hand-crafted ones. Keeps me humble about my own 'clever' pipelines.

TOOLMay 2026

Excalidraw

Where every architecture diagram and half-baked idea starts. The hand-drawn look somehow makes it okay for things to be wrong.

PAPERApr 2026

BixBench: benchmarking bioinformatics agents

The benchmark behind a lot of my xulab work. Notes on why bio reasoning is a genuinely different beast from generic QA.

PLAYINGMar 2026

Nicky Case: explorable explanations

Interactive essays that teach systems by letting you poke them. The north star for how I wish more ML papers were presented.